4/5 - Freedom v Courage in-game/post-game [R] Hopefully this doesn't turn into a mindless babble thread ala the KK. Washington's starting lineup (to be posted once the damn telecast starts):
Mia wearing a mic should be interesting. Does this mean she'll curse less or that ESPN is going to put a massive filter on...
Well there goes that idea. Jacqui and Abigail up top. Mia in the mid along with Stoecker, L-Squared, and Jones. Jacqui, Moore, Grubb, and Barr are the back four. Siri in nets.
FM9 Thank you for all of the lovely details.. I have not a TV here.. so they are appreciated very greatly- as are those of anyone else. Gratefully, PS
Prinz in the 6th minute scores Carolina's first goal of the match. Freedom 0:1 Courage Sorry but I am not doing a PBP for this match.
FM9- Clarification- I said details, not pbp- anything- any comments at all are appreciated... they beat non-comments.
Prinz outruns Carrie more, and then jukes Siri to the ground and the scores on an empty goal. 10' Lost of play in the midfield, Prinz still needs some SCUBA gear
Very nice save from Siri just now. Corner for the Freedom. Mia takes it in the 15th. Boots it onto Abby's head, but it's deflected out to Jen Grubb. Grubb blasts it in. Abby gets two shots on goal, but the keeper stopped one and Riise cleared the other off the line. Nice scramble in front of the goal.
13' save by Siri after some nice combination play by the courage 15' Freedom Corner after Mia's cross is tipped over the crossbar. AAAAHHHH Mia takes the corner, and the ball kept bouncing around, encluding a goal mouth clearance by Risse (wow, her hair got long)
ooops, sorry, phone call so I missed 4 minutes But there were no scoring during that 19' Courage have a long throw in by slaton into the box, but was easily cleared happened again. still nothing. Anson- Prinz is humongous, she better be good in the air, idiot.
Prinz seems to enjoy decking Steffi. Washington seems to be keeping possession of the ball more, but Carolina's getting deeper into the defensive 3rd. Riise takes Abby's feet out from under her, but it was a legal tackle for the ball. Abby runs the ball down to the endline and makes a nice cross, but it's deflected out of danger by a Carolina defender. Abby nearly ran onto a nice ball from Little (???), but her defender stifled.
22' another freedom corner, mia takes it, and after it bouncing around a bit, the goalie gets. 24' another freedom corner with mia set to take it. Steffy jones gets a head on it, and heads it over the cross bar.
Another corner by Mia, but Abby was pushed down in the box, so it hit nothing but hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. No call. I don't think one was needed. Washington continues to possess the ball very well. Corner by Mia in the 24th. She takes it with her right foot from the right side. Steffi jumped onto it but it goes over the bar by a yard or 5.
It looks like as time goes on the freedom are getting more and more comfortable. Prinz is whining again, thats at least twice now? 26' Freedom throw in, not nearly as far as slatons
28' Mia gets taken down from behind by slaton, mia sends ball into the box, the goalie drops it, but gets the rebound.
Prinz whines to the side judge about not getting the ball after she touched it out. Steffi had a good chance, but didn't get enough foot on it. Abby was knocked down in the box on the same play. Abby gets a ball in to Mia, but Mia's taken out by Slaton. Slaton gets a warning by the ref. Mia kicked it into the 6 and Stoecker nearly gets her foot on it, but the keeper picks it up after a bobble.
30' Freedom get lots and lots of crosses into the box (some of them nice) but nothin happenin. (I actually kind of like the courage new jerseys ) 31' Heart attack time! some miscommunication in the box between grub sending the ball right to a car player in the box, but nada.
Well. That was a defensive miscue. "You got it!" "No, you got it!" Fortunately for Washington, it wasn't fatal.
J. Little made a great cross, but it's over Abby's head. Washington continues to possess the ball well. Carolina gets the ball into the Washington box. After a miscue between Grubb, I think, and Siri the ball gets a little deeper than I would have liked. No significant damage, though. Still 1-0.
34' : Grubb makes a great slide tackle to depossess Prinz near the 18 yardline. 36' : Abby leaps into the air to try a header from a Mia cross, but her legs are taken out. No call. Hunt seems to be content to give warnings instead of cautions today.
35' grubb makes up her mistake by making a nice tackle against a charging prinz. 36' Another cross by Mia, some one barely misses getting a head on it, and the ball bounces around, but no one was there to make them pay. Prince tackles Stoeker earns a warning 37' Mia and TR wrestle each other for a bit.